Haunted England- Page 16

Though spectral dogs are commonplace in British lore, it is not often that one is interpreted as the actual ghost of a named dog, with a story to explain the haunting. But

Harvington Hall, about a mile (1.6 km) north-west of the village, is a late Elizabethan mansion, much remodelled in the seventeenth century; it is notable for its many priest holes and secret

Roy Palmer, who wrote The Folklore of Hereford and Worcester (1992), commented on various macabre traditions involving ghosts and hunting hounds. The owners of Church Farm at Besford used to have the

In his Household Tales (1895), S. O. Addy writes: The ghost of one of the Brights of Whirlow Hall, near Sheffield, was said to appear in a lane near the house in

W. Hylton Dyer Longstaffe, in his History … of Darlington (1854), says that his former residence at Thirsk had a White Lady attached to a nearby stream. This stream indeed took its

The ghost who cannot rest until his or her hidden treasure has been found is a theme of a number of international folktales. Not always, however, do things turn out so badly

A circular pit near Flamborough was said in the nineteenth century to be where a girl named Jenny Gallows committed suicide. It was a common belief along the coast that anyone running

William Henderson, in his Notes on the Folk-Lore of the Northern Counties (1866), writes: The village of Calverley, near Bradford … has been haunted since the time of Queen Elizabeth by the

According to tradition, the Jacobean mansion of Burton Agnes Hall in the East Riding was built by the three Griffiths sisters in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558–1603). At the time,

In the third volume of his History … of Durham (1823), Robert Surtees tells ‘an old story’ also recorded by others concerning the history of the manor of Bulmer. This was given